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The Colt Official Police is a medium frame, double-action revolver with a six-round cylinder, primarily chambered for the .38 Special cartridge, and manufactured by the Colt's Manufacturing Company. Released in 1908 as the Colt Army Special , the revolver was renamed the "Colt's Official Police" in 1927 in order to better market to law ...
Both .38 Special and .357 Magnum will chamber in Colt New Army revolvers in .38 Long Colt due to their straight walled chambers, but this should not be done under any circumstances, due to dangerous pressure levels up to three times what the New Army is designed to withstand.
The first weapons were produced with a drum that rotated counterclockwise, however, after the introduction of the Colt Army Special in 1908, the direction of rotation of the drum was reversed. [2] [3] In 1930 the Officer's Model Target Rimfire appeared, which was a .22 LR caliber version of the Model Target and was only produced with a 6-inch ...
The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a single-action revolver handgun.It was designed for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company (today known as Colt's Manufacturing Company) and was adopted as the standard-issued revolver of the U.S. Army from 1873 to 1892.
Official U.S. Army description of the original Army Model 1892 revolver and its .38 Long Colt ammunition. U.S. Army Ordnance Department (1917). Description of the Colt's Double-Action Revolver, Caliber .38, with Rules for Management, Memoranda of Trajectory, and Description of Ammunition. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Colt Army Model 1860: Colt's Manufacturing Company: Paper-wrapped.44 caliber.44 Colt: 6 United States: 1860-1873 Colt Army Special / Colt Official Police: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle.32-20.38 Special.41 Long Colt: 6 United States: 1908-1969 Colt Buntline: Colt's Manufacturing Company.45 Colt: 6 United States: 1957 ...
Colt Police Positive-revolver in .32 Colt New Police with a 6" barrel. This is a right-handed model. The Police Positive Special was an iterative improvement of Colt's earlier Police Positive model, the only differences being a slightly lengthened cylinder and elongated and strengthened frame to allow the chambering of the longer, more powerful .32-20 Winchester and .38 Special cartridges. [3]
Serial numbers for the Military & Police ranged from number 1 in the series to 20,975. Most of the early M&P revolvers chambered in .38 Special appear to have been sold to the civilian market. [5] By 1904, S&W was offering the .38 M&P with a rounded or square butt, and 4-, 5-, and 6.5-inch barrels.